Refugee Sentenced to 13 Years for Stabbing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial
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A German court found that the attacker, now age 20, had traveled more than 100 miles to stab a Spanish tourist, who survived.
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Advertisement SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Supported by SKIP ADVERTISEMENT Refugee Sentenced to 13 Years for Stabbing at Berlin Holocaust Memorial A German court found that the attacker, now age 20, had traveled more than 100 miles to stab a Spanish tourist, who survived. Listen to this article · 2:42 min Learn more Share full article March 5, 2026, 9:43 a.m. ET A man was sentenced on Thursday to 13 years in jail for stabbing a Spanish tourist at a major Holocaust memorial in central Berlin last year. The court, in Berlin, ruled that the attacker, a Syrian refugee who is now 20, had traveled more than 100 miles to the memorial specifically to attack people of Jewish faith, according to the German Press Agency newswire, or D.P.A. The Memorial to the Murdered Jews of Europe is an expansive site close to the United States embassy in Berlin that honors the memory of the six million Jews killed by the Nazis during World War II. The assailant, whom officials identified only as Wassim Al M. because of German privacy laws, walked up behind his victim and slashed his throat with a 5 ½-inch blade before yelling “Allahu akbar,” the court found, according to D.P.A. The victim, now 31, was also not named by the authorities to protect his privacy. He survived the attack, but his lawyers said he suffered extreme psychological trauma. “It must be considered a miracle that he survived the cut to his throat,” Judge Doris Husch said on Thursday, according to the D.P.A. Mr. Al M., who was 19 at the time of the stabbing, said in court that he felt sorry for his actions “the second after the attack” and that he had felt pressured into violence by someone he encountered online while searching for and watching Islamic State videos. He arrived in Germany in 2023 as a minor, officials said last year. The stabbing came after a string of other knife or car attacks by foreigners in Germany. The violence was viewed as helping to stoke anti-refugee sentiment in Germany and to increase support for the Alter...
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